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<title><![CDATA[Central, Eastern Europe aim to improve refugee status decisions]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Eight European Union countries, now meeting in Budapest, are to spend 18 months reviewing and developing the quality of their asylum status decisions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR helps Central Europe tackle sexual and gender-based violence]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR's efforts to ensure better protection against violence for refugees and asylum seekers throughout Central Europe comes a step closer with Slovenia's adoption of mechanisms to help women and children at risk.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR chief calls on EU to harmonize asylum systems]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres stresses the need for a harmonized asylum system in European Union countries.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Elderly refugees struggle to integrate in Slovenia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Elderly refugees pose a major integration challenge for UNHCR and governments around Europe.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR concerned about provisions in Slovenia's new asylum law]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR expresses concern about Slovenia's new asylum law and says many of its recommendations to improve the draft were ignored.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR concerned about new asylum law in Slovenia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Monday 7 January 2008 BUDAPEST, January 7 - UNHCR is very concerned about a number of provisions in Slovenia's new Law on International Protection. The law came into force on Friday (4 January). During...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slovakia: New agreement on border and airport monitoring]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UNHCR has signed an agreement with the Slovak Aliens and Border Police and the Bratislava-based Human Rights League for monitoring activities along Slovakia's land borders and at its airports. The main...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR urges Slovenia to resolve the problem of its "erased cases"]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Today is a black one for almost 4,000 people in Slovenia. Exactly 15 years ago, they were deprived of their legal residency status and the benefits that came with it, including facilitated access to nationality, housing, employment, health insurance, pensions and access to higher education. Many of them are stateless and UNHCR is pushing for the problem to be resolved.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slovenian authorities turned legal resident into asylum seeker]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Alija Berisha is puzzled and angry. After living and working in Slovenia for years, he discovered in 1995 that he was no longer welcome in the country that had once formed part of the Yugoslav federation with his native Kosovo. UNHCR has been pushing for his case, and those of other stateless people, to be resolved.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Football brings refugees and host societies closer]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Moves by Slovenia to deport four asylum-seeking Gambian football players have caused a public uproar. The case is one example of how football can help bridge the gap between refugees and asylum seekers and their host societies.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR disappointed with new Slovenian asylum law]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ We are disappointed over the Slovene Parliament's vote on Monday in favour of amendments to the country's asylum law. When the amendments were announced, UNHCR warned that there was a real danger that...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slovenia: UNHCR concerned about new asylum laws]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UNHCR is concerned about some amendments to Slovenia's Asylum Act that are currently under preparation. If Parliament adopts the draft legislation proposed by the Slovene government yesterday (Thursday,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Asylum applications in Europe, 1st half 2000]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ The number of asylum applications submitted in Europe in July 2000 (33,150) increased by 8% compared to June (30,790). The increase in Iraqi (47%) and in particular Iranian (50%) applications in July...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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